How Your Heart Prepares for Tomorrow’s Stress Challenges and threats both raise daytime heart rates significantly. Threats increase blood pressure more than challenges do. Anticipating a challenge actually lowers your sleeping heart... Read more »
Australia recently announced a ban on social media use for kids under 16, citing concerns about mental health and online safety. But there’s another issue at stake—sleep. Teenagers’ late-night screen use has... Read more »
Not everyone remembers their dreams, and those who do will often say their dream “was weird” and leave it at that. An ancient proverb reminds us, “A dream uninterpreted is like a... Read more »
When Shakespeare wrote “To sleep, perchance to dream,” was he thinking wishfully? Remember when you could sleep anywhere, anytime? Your head hit the pillow and you were out until morning. Seems those... Read more »
“I can’t fall asleep without a glass of wine.” Can you relate? As a sober therapist who quit alcohol after drinking to fall asleep for over a decade, I completely understand. Worrying... Read more »
When I was seven months pregnant, someone handed me a copy of Twelve Hours by Twelve Weeks, a bestselling baby sleep manual. I devoured it like scripture. Everyone had warned me that... Read more »
I still remember the first time I stumbled onto the “sleeping aid” property of alcohol. I was 15, going through my first breakup, and had been losing sleep for nearly two months.... Read more »
Blunden, S., Osborne, J., & King, Y. (2022). Do responsive sleep interventions impact mental health in mother/infant dyads compared to extinction interventions? A pilot study. Archives of Women’s Mental Health, 25(3), 621–631.... Read more »
Sleep is not just a human quirk or a nighttime luxury, it is one of biology’s most ancient survival tools. Long before humans, mammals, or even brains existed, primitive creatures were already... Read more »
Over 900 million adults globally are estimated to have obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) (1). In the United States, more than 30 million adults are affected, yet 80-90% remain undiagnosed (2). The impact... Read more »